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ON THE RIGHT INSTEAD OF THE LEFT
ARM OF HER FATHER
With Deepest Sympathy




Contents

Chapter
I. THE ETIQUETTE OF COURTSHIP
A Few Words about Love--Curious Incident in a Yellow Taxicab--A
Silly Girl--Correct Introductions and how to Make Them--A
Well Known Congressman's Ludicrous Mistake in a Turkish
Bath--Cards and Flowers--Flowers and their Message in
Courtship--"A Clean Tooth Never Decays"--Receiving an
Invitation to Call--The Etiquette of Telephoning-A Telephone
Girl's Horrible End--Making the First Call--Conversation and
Some of its Uses--A Proper Call--The Proposal Proper-The Proposal
Improper--What Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Said to the
ex-Clergyman's Niece.

II. THE ETIQUETTE OF ENGAGEMENTS AND WEDDINGS
The Historic Aspect--Announcing the Engagement--A Breton Fisher
Girl's Experience with a Traveling Salesman--The Bride-to-Be--The
Engagement Luncheon--Selecting the Bridal Party--Invitations and
Wedding Presents--A Good Joke on the Groom--"Madam, those are
my trousers"--Duties of the Best Man--A Demented Taxidermist's
Strange Gift -- The Bride's Tea--The Maid of Honor--What Aunt
Edna Saw on the Club Porch-The Bachelor Dinner and After-Some
Practical Uses for Bi-Carbonate of Soda--The Rehearsal --The
Bridal Dinner--A Church Wedding.

III. THE ETIQUETTE OF TRAVEL
Hints for the Correct Pedestrianism--Description of a Walk around
Philadelphia with a Pueblo Indian in 1837--Travelling by Rail--
Good Form on a Street Car--In the Subway--Fun with an Old
Gentleman's Whiskers--A Honeymoon in a Subway--Travelling under
Steam-A Correct Night in a Pullman-What Burton Holmes Found in
His Lower Berth.

IV. AT THE CONCERT AND THE OPERA
Listening to a Symphony Orchestra--Curious Effect of Debussy's
"Apres-midi d'un Faune" and four gin fizzes on Uncle
Frederick--"No, fool like an old fool"--Correct Behavior at a
Piano Recital--Choosing One's Nearest Exit--In a Box at the
Opera--What a Kansas City Society Leader Did with Her Old
Victrola Records.

V. ETIQUETTE FOR DRY AGENTS